It took ten hours for Wheeljack and Rathcet to perform the surgery.
Once they were done Prime saw Wheeljack whisk some sort of container away from the med bay and into his lab. Starscream, still in stasis, was lying on the med table and had energon lines fueling him to compensate for how much he had lost. Ratchet was cleaning the med tools, and Bee was helping put away the cleaned tools.
Prime walked towards Wheeljack's lab, pressed the intercom on the wall and asked to enter.
"Just a minute Prime!"
Optimus waited an exact minute and then the door opened.
"So Wheeljack, do you know what was inside Starscream?"
"No not yet, but it's an organic life form, like a parasite, maybe a mutated form of the earth parasite, Tick"
"A Tick eh? Well keep working on it, maybe we could make defenses against it"
"Will Do Prime"
Optimus walked out of Wheeljack's lab and back to Teletran-1.
If that thing easily bit through Starscreams armor, think what it might do to a human!
He shuddered at the thought, as he reached Teletran-1 Jazz drove in with Sam and Mikaela. The two humans quickly got out of the Autobots alt mode and walked to Prime as Jazz transformed.
"Hey there Prime! How're things doing?"
"Ehhhh alright Mikaela, we have a Decepticon in med bay, he's in stasis at the moment"
"A Decepticon Prime?" asked Jazz, "Which one?"
"Starscream"
Sam and Mikaela were taken aback a little bit, Jazz, well his expression was as confused as his robotic face could get.
"Sorry but wasn't April fools day a little bit ago Prime?"
"I wish this was a prank Sam, but he came in with severe wounds and a creature stuck in his energon fuel lines"
"That is definitely odd Prime, but it reminds me, I picked up some odd energy sigs when I was in New York City and passed the river" Jazz walked over to Teletran-1 and started pressing buttons on the large alien keyboard.
Meanwhile, Wheeljack was studying the parasite, it kept trying to bite him and take his energon, and so he had to resort to mechanical arms to touch the creature without harming himself.
"Stay still you little squishy!"
The creature was moving around the cage, trying to get out, slamming against the cage walls. Wheeljack had to corner it in the cage with the arms, and he held it down with one while getting a extraction of the creatures DNA. He looked at it's DNA/blood through a microscope, getting a "Holy Primus" out of his vocal processor.
"Prime! PRIME! You better get here quick!" Ratchet's voice shouted from the comm. , " 'Jack found something out about the creature that I think you should see."
Optimus and the others ran to the Lab, they saw the creature in the cage.
"Nice looking guy, you caught a REAL beauty Jack" Sam said sarcastically.
Wheeljack Ignored Sam's comment and walked up to Prime.
"I took a sample of it's DNA and looked at it under my microscope, it appears that it's blood is now energon, but it also has a mix of un-identified toxins in it."
Prime looked at Wheeljack with a quizzical face.
"What do you mean, it's Energon?"
"It's a parasite Prime, it drew Starscreams energon, and made it's own blood become mostly Energon."